2nd Week Assignment of Advanced Academic Writing (ENG 5202)

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Assignment 4 Please workout the following 1-4 exercises on Vocabulary 2: Verbs of Movements!

Vocabulary 2: Verbs of movement

1. Match the parts of the graph 1-10 with the verbs a-j

1 A-B h. dipped
2 B-C d. plummeted
3 B-D b. fell and then leveled
off
4 D-F g. soared
5 F j. hit a peak
6 F-H i. fluctuated
7 G a. hit a low
8 I-J e. rose gradually
9 J-K c. remained flat/stable
10 L-M f. fell gradually
2. For sentences 1-10 below, use the verbs in exercise 1 to replace the underlined text.

1 The price of laptops dropped followed by a period of fell and then leveled
stability. off
2 Numbers reached a high in the year 2009. hit a peak
3 The amount of money spent fell slightly and then quickly dipped
recovered.
4 Visitor numbers to website plunged in the first quarter of plummeted
the year.
5 Book purchases increases slowly but surely over the year. rose gradually
6 The number of students applying to the university stabilized remained flat/stable
over the decade.
7 Attendance at the conference decreases steadily last year. fell gradually
8 The growth rate was erratic during the previous year. fluctuated
9 Member numbers reached their lowest point in March. hit a low
10 Car sales rocketed over the period. soared

3. Look at the nouns in the box below and decide which ones are not correct

a drop a plunge a bottom out an increase stabilization

fluctuations a decline a rocket a soar a plummet a rise

a dip a fall a level off a climb a peak a surge

4. Rewrite the sentences from exercise 2 using nouns instead of verbs. For two sentences
this is not possible. Make any other necessary changes.
There was a in

1 There was a drop in the price of laptops followed by a period of stability

2 There was a rise in the year 2009
3 There was a dip in the amount of money spent
4 There was a plunge in visitor numbers to website in the first quarter of the
year.
5 There was an increase in book purchases over the year slowly but surely.
6 There was a stabilization in the number of students applying to the university
over the decade.
7 There was a decline in attendance at the conference last year.
8 There was a fluctuations in the growth rate during the previous year.
9 There was a bottom out in member numbers in march.
10 There was a surge in car sales over the period.
Assignment 5 a: Work in pairs or groups, Read the Writing Task 1 question below and the three
introductions a-c which follow. Decide which is the best introduction and why.

Writing Task 1
The Graph below provides a breakdown of the UK weekly market share of visits to three social
networking websites between March 2007 and March 2008. Summarize the information by
selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least
150 words.

Exercises 1

a. The graph below shows in percentage terms the UK weekly market share of visits to
three websites between March 2007 and March 2008.
b. The chart below shows the percentage of hits to three websites over the period of a year.
c. The chart illustrates the market share of hits to various social networking sites in the UK
on a weekly basis over one year to March 2008.
Assignment 5 b: Now complete the gaps in the following model answer for the task with
the correct form of a suitable verb. There may be more than one possible answer.

The graph 1 _______ the proportion of hits to three social networking sites on a weekly
basis from 10th March 2007 to 8th March 2008.
Generally speaking, the trends in the market share of three sites 2_______ . The most
viewed site 3_______ clearly www.facebook.com whose share of the market. 4. _______
dramatically from approximately 0.25 per cent on 10 th March 2007 to 1.96 per cent on 8 th
March 2008. This 5 _______ nearly an eightfold increase over the periode. It 6_______
noticeable that the market share of Facebook 7 _______ a high around 2.2 per cent during
December 2008, with peaks being hit by the other two sites during the same period.
The market share of hits to bebo site, meanwhile 8 _______ at a slower pace from about
1.2 to 1.44 per cent, a rises of approximately 40 per cent. In contrast to the othe two
websites, the market share of www.myspace.com 9 _______ decreasing from
approximately the same level as www.bebo.com on 10th March 2007 to 0.89 per cent.

1. shows
2. In the UK on a weekly basis over one year from March 2007 to March 2008.
3. was
4. it rose
5. increase
6. understandably
7. reached
8. went up
9. had
Assignment 5 c: Now Individually, cover the model answer above and make notes about
what you remember about it ; then use your notes to write your own answer to the
question!

The chart illustrates the market share of hits to various social networking sites in the UK
on a weekly basis over one year from March 2007 to March 2008. This chart shows us
basically three of the most used networking sites: myspace, facebook and bebo.
We can see that facebook was the least used network until August 2007, and then during
this month the visit soared, from then to the end of November the visit received rose
gradually. During four months facebook had increased slowly but surely. However, it
was at the beginning of December 2007 when it’s numbers hit a peak but not for long
time because in the next three months the visit fell and then leveled off. Bebo started the
same way: rising gradually until June 2007. However, the visits fluctuated from then to
March 2008.
On the other hand, we can also appreciate that my space has been falling gradually
despite that it was the most visited during the first month. Although myspace decreases
steadily, we can see some points where it is possible to appreciate a dip (from April to
June). But in the end, chart shows us that myspace is the least visited at the end of March.
To conclude, we can see that facebook was the one least visited at first but in the end was
the most visited. However, myspace happended the opposite